Reading up on "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" (or just "Animal Farm") by George Orwell.

Because most critics against socialism directly stem from that one media source, which is a satire about the 1917 Russian revolution, that then drifted into Stalinism (an extreme form of authoritarian socialism).

It's literally super specific to that historical event and not a critic of socialism or communism. It's just saying "Hey, what that person did there? Don't do that!"

Onwell was a democratic socialism himself (when that actually meant something good) and taking his work out of context to then go around and "proof" that socialism/communism doesn't work at all is pretty bold.

The real message is: authoritarian socialism (like stalinism) just can't work and will fail the same way as capitalism does.